A regular podcast about the challenges of front-end design & development in a fast-moving industry, with Jay George and Rob de Kort. We chat about industry news, workflow, favourite software, and everything else related to designing and developing websites.
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18 - Are people using container queries? Transition to auto height, fit to width, Fig and Amazon Q, relative colors, nth-child, Things, and Markdown
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In this episode we recorded a month ago, we establish that Jay is clearly running this show and Rob just sits there. We cover our experiences with the recent Statamic Flat Camp and discover that Jay procrastinates watering his plants. Also: using modern CSS features, transitioning to auto, relative colors, Rob yelling at the Markdown cloud and a wh…
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17 - Mechanical keyboards, domain names, animating strokes, Vidstack
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It has been a while. When we recorded this episode a while ago after a few drinks, and apparently it took Jay time to recover the edit. But here we are, with more profanity than usual. Sorry, not sorry. Jay spent a lot of money on hardware and a domain. We share what we've been working on, cover a lot of news and vacuum Jay's tiny London apartment.…
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16 - Radical Design with Jack McDade, Flat Camp EU in Italy, Statamic v5 features, CMS Competitors & Ethics
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Jack McDade joins us to talk about his brand new Radical Design Course. The three of us are all going to Flat Camp EU and it is just around the corner. Statamic will get a major version update soon and it contains some pretty exciting new features and enhancements. Lastly, there’s a very generous discount code for Radical Design in this episode as …
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15 - Clients sliding into your DMs, cap units, Arc Search, Herd Pro, stylable switches, and overflow hidden is dead
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After a two month recording pause including an in person meetup, we have a lot to go over. Like clients sliding into your DMS, the new Cap unit, Dune 2, and the use and misuse of uppercase text. We also cover Herd Pro, the switch property, overflow:clip, form-sizing, CSS Generators, typescale.com, a warning about evergreen browsers, kanban boards i…
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14 - Em vs ch, pseudo alt text, animating summary/details, mechanical keyboards, grids and repeating gradients
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Three minutes of Indiana Jones chat followed by em's vs ch units—we know how to bring in the New Year! Webkit has introduced alt text for pseudo-elements. The summary/details element may soon be animatable. We record on Blue Monday which cleary increases Rob his grumpiness towards the endless stream of AI content. Jay documents his journey into the…
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13 - Christmas 2023, hanging punctuation, light & dark, Figma & Adobe, and GitHub Copilot as a useful AI
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In our very first Christmas episode, Jay makes fun of Dutch again when English clearly lacks a very important word; Rob shares updates regarding his password manager changes and doesn't like big blobs of light. Tailwind gets :has(), Figma get a cool $1B, and something's up with Chrome dev relations. We chat about the most recent news in CSS, and Ja…
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12 - Side projects, politics, third-party cookie deprecation, little LDN meetup, CSS’s biggest year, and 1Password
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With Jay back in London, we return to remote recording again. We talk about abandoned side projects before Rob finally strikes back regarding pronunciation. We also cover Dutch politics (sorry), trivia, Google’s Topics API, and a lot of CSS news, including scroll snapping v2. Rob shares his experience of moving from 1Password to iCloud Keychain, an…
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11 - Laravel Precognition, Canvas, PostCSS stages, hipster animation, Safari goes scroll-driven, Passkeys & 1Password
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Fireworks and popping beers. In this very first in-person recording, Rob gets flagged for proper pronunciation again. Jay has gathered more coffee knowledge. Rob doesn't spit out his wine when tasting. Last but not least, from the comfort of a fire stove, we laugh over vicar jokes and cover Laravel Precognition, Canvas, PostCSS, (scroll-driven) ani…
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10 - From freelance back to full-time employment, with Ross Wintle. Duck Duck Go, Safari and CSS nesting news
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After freelancing for ten years, Ross now works for WPEngine. He joins us to chat about his journey between the freelance and corporate worlds and the empowering revelation that everyone is creative. In the news, HTML introduces a brand-new search element, and CSS nesting is relaxing their requirement for ampersands—said in a Dutch/French accent. W…
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9 - Age Gate Indexing, Opening Links In New Tabs, Stealing Design, CSS
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Jay has an interesting time implementing Age Gate with search engines. We chat about the launch of our new Code Rush website, including decisions on opening links in new tabs, and designing á la Olivia Rodrigo—a world-famous pop star, for those that don’t know. Subgrid is upon us, and so is Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” which has garnered much debate …
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8 - Where Is WordPress Now? With Amber Weinberg, Agency Life and News Including CSS Sticky/Stuck
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Amber Weinberg is a frontend developer at Studio Simpatico with over 25 years of experience. She joins us to muse over all the CSS news and to tell us all about how they use WordPress for their client work. All the while we complete CSS. Jay opens up about health and coffee. Introduction Jay on Coffee and Cholesterol A Good Use of ChatGPT New CSS F…
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Dave Smyth is a designer and developer interested in privacy and ethics. He joins us for this episode. Jay tries his best to lighten the tone with the latest web news while Rob and Dave get heavy with privacy and ethics. Introduction Social Media and Mental Health CSS Nesting in Firefox Spat Chat: CSS confusion? Custom easing in CSS Profiles coming…
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6 - Scroll Driven Animations in Stable Chrome, CSS Subgrid, Kirby v4, Responsive Archetypes, Wix AI Builder, and More
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Rob is grumpy. In all his excitement about a certain thing being released in stable Chrome, Jay texted him, to which Rob responded in a very lame manner. This must be why Jay keeps giving Rob a hard time on his English pronounciation. There's a actual news this episode as well, and with Jay as our anchorman, we cover it all. Contract Killer Scroll …
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5 - Clients and CMS Control, Pricing Web Development, and Spat Chat
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How much access and control do you give Clients in a CMS Control Panel? Jay actively limits clients while Rob gives more - albeit restricted - freedom. Pricing stuff in Web Development is hard, how do we do it? We also have a new segment called Spat Chat 💦. Control Panel access for Clients Pricing in Web Development Spat Chat on Design for the Web …
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4 - WWDC, Safari Updates, Web Apps and Sticky Elements
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Jay is anxiously waiting for his new MacBook and hasn't told his client yet that he's taken progressive enhancement to an insane level. Rob, again, didn't go to a conference. We discuss scroll driven animations and the fancy Apple Vision Pro. What is new in Safari and what do sticky elements mean for accessibility. Introduction Scroll driven animat…
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3 - Multi Page View Transitions, Conferences, Colour Models, and Statamic v4
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After looping back around to some previous topics to course-correct, we discuss the web conference circuit and the idea of simply meeting up for fun, à la "Flat Camp" style—Statamic's new conference. Colour models are now supported in all modern browsers so we cover everything from RGB, HSL, through to the newest OKLCH model. Finally, we comb over …
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2 - View Transitions, The Dangers and Advantages of Picking a Small CMS, and Is Safari really "Evergreen"?
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Jay got a new King, and Rob's kids sold stuff on a blanket to celebrate the birthday of his King(?!). We tinker with the idea of "View Transitions", the web's answer to soft-loading content—similar to the behaviour of iOS and Android apps. Is it ready for traditional websites? We weigh up Content Management Systems and close off by discussing if Sa…
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1 - Scroll Timeline, Snap Scroll and Jacking, Vanilla CSS, Tailwind, and their Communities
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In our pilot episode, Rob and Jay introduce themselves before diving into Scroll-timeline and the desire for native scroll triggering, along with aversions to snap scroll and jacking. We lament the vanilla CSS / Tailwind community divide—with Jay and Rob shaking hands across the fence—before discussing misconceptions about Tailwind, plus its applic…
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